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The Magic Behind Scripted/unscripted
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Due to Popular Demand, This Workshop Returns Once Again!
Come learn the improv magic behind HVC's most popular show, SCRIPTED/UNSCRIPTED, from two highly experienced performers (and all-around awesome people). In this structure, an actor performs one half of a scene strictly line by line according to a script while the improviser has no idea what scene it is and gets to make it all up on the spot. SCRIPTED/UNSCRIPTED is a wild and wooly ride that can be surprisingly, magically ease-ful for improvisers. Scott Braidman leads you through an exploration of the joy and ease of holding up the improviser's unscripted half of the scene while Stephanie Carlson provides insight on the scripted actor's half of your scenes. And you'll get to improvise while Stephanie performs the scene line by line with you. You get to practice SCRIPTED/UNSCRIPTED with Stephanie Carlson! How cool is that?! Spend the afternoon getting a hands-on feel for the artistry and craft of improvising in this structure. Then you'll get to see Scott and Stephanie perform in SCRIPTED/UNSCRIPTED that night. How cool is that too?!
Prerequisite: Completion of Zen of Improv 3 or the equivalent from another comedy school.
About Your Teachers:
Scott Braidman is General Manager and Artistic Director of Happier Valley Comedy. Scott started improvising in 2002 with Mission: Improvable at UMass Amherst, and since then he has studied and performed at The iO Theater and One Group Mind in Chicago, The UCB Theatre in New York, and ImprovBoston and Improv Asylum in Boston. He was also an instructor with the ImprovBoston Comedy School. Scott produces all of Happier Valley Comedy's shows as well as teaching Advanced Improv classes and performing with The Happier Valley Comedy Show, The Happier FAMILY Comedy Show, The Majesters, and the tiny audience show We Made A Thing. However, his 3-year old Amelia will always be funnier than him.
Stephanie Carlson is a SCRIPTED/UNSCRIPTED junkie and is thrilled to be doing it again! Recent local productions: Lungs (Full Disclosure Festival/Silverthorne Theater), Jacques Brel is Alive and Well and Living in Paris, Turn of the Screw (Silverthorne Theater), Sweet, Sweet Spirit (Academy of Music), The Little Foxes, Mr. Burns, A Post Electric Play (New Century Theatre), A Christmas Carol (Hanover Theatre, Worcester.)
Small but Important Details!
*Please note that once you make your purchase, your place in the class is NON-REFUNDABLE
unless we have 48 hours notice before the event AND we can get someone to fill your spot.
*Students must be 18+ years. (In actual years, not maturity. ;)
*Our classes involve physical activity, and we could be on our feet for at least an hour.
If that's an issue, please let your instructor know how we can accommodate the class to fit your needs.
Please email us with any questions about accommodations for ability.
Come learn the improv magic behind HVC's most popular show, SCRIPTED/UNSCRIPTED, from two highly experienced performers (and all-around awesome people). In this structure, an actor performs one half of a scene strictly line by line according to a script while the improviser has no idea what scene it is and gets to make it all up on the spot. SCRIPTED/UNSCRIPTED is a wild and wooly ride that can be surprisingly, magically ease-ful for improvisers. Scott Braidman leads you through an exploration of the joy and ease of holding up the improviser's unscripted half of the scene while Stephanie Carlson provides insight on the scripted actor's half of your scenes. And you'll get to improvise while Stephanie performs the scene line by line with you. You get to practice SCRIPTED/UNSCRIPTED with Stephanie Carlson! How cool is that?! Spend the afternoon getting a hands-on feel for the artistry and craft of improvising in this structure. Then you'll get to see Scott and Stephanie perform in SCRIPTED/UNSCRIPTED that night. How cool is that too?!
Prerequisite: Completion of Zen of Improv 3 or the equivalent from another comedy school.
About Your Teachers:
Scott Braidman is General Manager and Artistic Director of Happier Valley Comedy. Scott started improvising in 2002 with Mission: Improvable at UMass Amherst, and since then he has studied and performed at The iO Theater and One Group Mind in Chicago, The UCB Theatre in New York, and ImprovBoston and Improv Asylum in Boston. He was also an instructor with the ImprovBoston Comedy School. Scott produces all of Happier Valley Comedy's shows as well as teaching Advanced Improv classes and performing with The Happier Valley Comedy Show, The Happier FAMILY Comedy Show, The Majesters, and the tiny audience show We Made A Thing. However, his 3-year old Amelia will always be funnier than him.
Stephanie Carlson is a SCRIPTED/UNSCRIPTED junkie and is thrilled to be doing it again! Recent local productions: Lungs (Full Disclosure Festival/Silverthorne Theater), Jacques Brel is Alive and Well and Living in Paris, Turn of the Screw (Silverthorne Theater), Sweet, Sweet Spirit (Academy of Music), The Little Foxes, Mr. Burns, A Post Electric Play (New Century Theatre), A Christmas Carol (Hanover Theatre, Worcester.)
Small but Important Details!
*Please note that once you make your purchase, your place in the class is NON-REFUNDABLE
unless we have 48 hours notice before the event AND we can get someone to fill your spot.
*Students must be 18+ years. (In actual years, not maturity. ;)
*Our classes involve physical activity, and we could be on our feet for at least an hour.
If that's an issue, please let your instructor know how we can accommodate the class to fit your needs.
Please email us with any questions about accommodations for ability.
NOTICE OF NONDISCRIMINATION POLICY AS TO STUDENTS
The Happier Valley Comedy School admits students of any race, color, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, religious affiliation, age, ability, national and ethnic origin to all the rights, privileges, programs, and activities generally accorded or made available to students at the school. It does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, religious affiliation, age, ability, national and ethnic origin in administration of its educational policies, admissions policies, scholarship and loan programs, and other school-administered programs.
The Happier Valley Comedy School admits students of any race, color, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, religious affiliation, age, ability, national and ethnic origin to all the rights, privileges, programs, and activities generally accorded or made available to students at the school. It does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, religious affiliation, age, ability, national and ethnic origin in administration of its educational policies, admissions policies, scholarship and loan programs, and other school-administered programs.
